BRIGHAM:
English surname, derived from the place name in Cumbria and Yorkshire, composed of the Old English elements brycg "bridge" and ham
"homestead," hence "homestead by the bridge."

BRIGHTON:
English surname derived from Breighton, the name of a place on the
River Derwent, composed of the Old English elements brycg
"bridge" and tun "town, settlement," hence
"settlement by the bridge."

BRISCOE:
English surname, derived from the name of various places, most of which were composed of the Old
Norse elements birki
"birch" and sk�gr "wood," hence "birch
wood."

CAMPION:
Norman French surname,
derived from the word campion, which was originally a status name for a professional
"champion."

CARLISLE:
English surname, derived from the name of a
city in northwest England which the Romans settled and
called Lugovalio "place of
Lugovalos." Lugovalio
was later shortened to Leol and prefixed with
the British word caer "fortress,"
rendering the name Carleol, "fortress of Lugovalos,"
from which Carlisle was derived. In Arthurian
legend, this was the name of the place where Guinevere's
affair with Sir
Lancelot was exposed, and where she was sentenced to
death.

CARLTON:
English surname, derived from the name of various places in England,
composed of the Old English elements carl/charl "(free)
peasant" and tun "settlement, town," hence
"settlement of the free peasants." It is a
dialectal variant of Charlton.

CARLYLE:
Variant spelling of the English surname Carlisle,
meaning "fortress of Luguvalos."

CECIL:
English surname, derived from an Anglicized form of the Welsh personal name Seissylt,
meaning "sixth."

CERNUUS:
Latin surname meaning "the crooked." Abbon Cernuus (also known as
Abbo Parisiensis) was a monk of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and author of a
Latin poem about the siege of Paris by the Normans.

CHADWICK:
English surname, derived from the name of various places
in England, composed of Old English Chad
(A.S. Ceadda) "battle,"
and the word wic "place, settlement," hence "Ceadda's
place" or perhaps "battle-settlement." William Arthur derives
it from Cyte and wick, signifying a "cottage by a
harbor" or "sheltered cottage." It has also often been
rendered "Ceadda's dairy farm."

CHANCÉ: French
baronial surname, derived
from a byname for an obsessive gambler, risk-taker, or
daredevil, meaning "chance, fortune."

CHANCE:
English form of the French baronial surname Chancé, transferred to forename use, meaning "chance,
fortune."

CHAPMAN: English
surname, derived from Old
English cēapmann, composed of the elements
cēapan
"to buy, sell, trade" and mann
"man," hence "merchant, peddler."

CHARLTON:
English surname, derived from the name of various places
in England, composed of the Old English elements carl/charl
"(free) peasant" and tun "settlement, town,"
hence
"settlement of the free peasants." It is a
dialectal variant of Carlton.

CHASE: English surname (of Norman French origin),
derived from a byname for a hunter, hence
"hunter."

CHAUNCEY:
English form of the Norman French surname Chancey,
meaning
"chance, fortune."

CHAUVIN:
French surname, composed of the word chauve and a diminutive suffix,
hence "little bald one."

COOPER:
English occupational surname, derived from
Dutch kuper, from kup "tub;
container," which in English became coop. A
cooper was a maker and/or fixer of vessels such as
buckets and barrels.

CORDELL:
English occupational surname, derived from a diminutive form of Old French corde,
"rope," hence "little roper." The occupation consisted of
making strings, cords, ropes, etc.

CORLISS:
English surname, originally a byname meaning
"carefree," from Old English carleas,
composed of the elements caru "care; grief"
and leas
"without."

CORNELL:
English surname, derived from a
Medieval form of Roman Latin Cornelius,
probably meaning "horns of the sun," i.e. "sun-beams."

COTY:
English surname, derived
from a diminutive form of the French word côte, meaning
"little riverbank."

COURTENAY:
French baronial name derived from the
nickname court nez, meaning "short
nose."

COURTNEY:
English surname derived from
the French baronial name Courtenay,
meaning "short
nose."

CRAIG:
Scottish surname, derived from the name of various places
named from Gaelic creag,
meaning "rock."

CRAWFORD:
English surname derived from a byname for someone
with splayed feet, composed of the Old English elements crawe
"crow" and fot "foot," hence
"crow-foot."

CREIGHTON
(pron. krai-ton): Scottish surname transferred to
forename use, either a variant of the surname Crichton
("settlement on the border"), or from Gaelic creachton,
"place of plunder or ruin."

CRICHTON:
Scottish surname transferred to forename use, derived
from the place name Crichton in Midlothian,
composed of Gaelic crioch "border" and
Old English tun "place, settlement,"
hence "settlement on the border."

CURTIS:
English surname, derived
from a byname for a
"courteous"
person, from Old French curteis. The name later became
associated with Middle English curt
"short" and hose "leggings,"
taking on the meaning "short leggings."

D'ABBADIE:
French surname, meaning "of the Abbey." Variant: Abbadie.
Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie was a French traveler, accompanied by his brother
Arnaud Michel, in Abyssinia and the Galla country.

DACEY:
Irish Anglicized form of Gaelic Déiseach which
was originally a name for a member of the Déise,
"a tenant, a vassal," a word tracing back to Indo-European *dem-s
("house").

DALLAS:
English surname, derived from the Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Dalfhas,
the name of a village in Morayshire, composed of the
elements dail "meadow" and fhas
"stance," hence "meadow stance,"
i.e. a meadow used by cattle droves as an overnight
dwelling.

DALTON:
English surname, derived from various place
names composed of the Old English elements dæl "valley" and tun
"enclosure, settlement," hence "valley
settlement."

D'ARTAGNAN
(pronounced dar-tan-yun): French
habitational surname, meaning "from Artagnan." This was the name of the hero of Alexandre
Dumas' novel The Three Musketeers. The
French form of the name is d'Artagnan; the English form is D'Artagnan
(capital "D").

DARWIN:
English surname, probably derived from a Middle English Derwin,
from Anglo-Saxon Deorwine,
meaning "dear friend."

D'AUBIGNY:
French surname,
meaning "from Aubigny," a Norman city which
got its name
from Latin Albinius,
meaning "like Albus,"
i.e. "white."